Hello All,
I am building a blueprint cabinet using wooden pieces for the drawer slides and am having some difficulty in deciding which joint to use at the rear of the drawer to join the rear pieces when I have to make a groove in the side of the drawer for which the drawers will slide in and out. Any suggestions you may have about which joint would he best used for this joinery.
I await your reply.
Thank You
Benny
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I like to use tongue-and-groove joints for drawer cases because they're plenty stong and they're easy to make. See attached sketch for details.
If I understand you correctly, you will be mounting cleats on the inside of the cabinets and cutting grooves in the sides of the drawer cases to ride on the cleats. With drawers constructed as sketched, you can cut those grooves with either a dado blade in the tablesaw or with a router, after the drawer boxes have been assembled but before the separate front faces have been attached.
Edited 10/20/2006 12:00 pm ET by Bill Duckworth
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